Promise FastTrak TX2 IDE

gmlabs · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

I have a Promise Fasttrak XT2 IDE controller in a server .. now I'm stuck ..
I compiled the driver and have the module load on boot, but can not get the device the show as dev/sda
What do I need to do the accomplish that ?
I'm sure it's a easy fix but sometime doin it over and over makes you blind to the obvius

dmesg : snip :
PDC20270: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
PDC20270: chipset revision 2
PDC20270: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc408-0xc40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hdc: GCR-8523B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: WDC WD1200BB-00DWA0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue 80186718, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdg: WDC WD1200BB-00DWA0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue 80186b74, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb802 on irq 17
ide3 at 0xbc00-0xbc07,0xc002 on irq 17
hde: attached ide-disk driver.
hde: host protected area => 1
hde: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
hdg: host protected area => 1
hdg: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
--- snip ---

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PROMISE FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.03.0.2
scsi0 : FastTrak
Vendor: Promise Model: 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev: 1.10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
--- snip ----
cat /proc/scsi/FastTrak/0
PROMISE FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.03.0.2
Adapter1 - FastTrak LP/TX2/TX4, IRQ(17)
Array - Array[1] : 1X2 Mirror (OK)
Drive -
1: WDC WD1200BB-00DWA0 IDE1/Master Array[1] 120033MB UDMA5
3: WDC WD1200BB-00DWA0 IDE3/Master Array[1] 120033MB UDMA5

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject:

gmlabs,

From your dmesg snippet, the drives on your Promise Fasttrak XT2 IDE controller have been attached to the IDE subsystem as /dev/hde and /dev/hdg.

Why were you expecting /dev/sda ?
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gmlabs · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

for the raid to function it has the be a scsi device, the kernel still recognise the ide also, I did add the following th the grub conf but get a kernel error when ltrying to mount root=/dev/sda3

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject:

gmlabs,

How did you make the raid set?
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

gmlabs · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

I made the raid in the bios of the card,
Since I'm now booting and usif dev/hde (the primary) I hope one I use the raid it will sync the second drive.
I do oknow that the second drive onlt has the data as at time of creation.

The problem I'm having is booting of /dev/hde1 loading the modues and then mounting dev/sda3 as root
I think this is what I want to do , but being the first time using ide raid , don't know.
Unfortionately this server was not my call ,and a DL380 would have saved me allot of time and frustration

bwoo · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 41 Location: New York, NY

gmlabs

did you ever get your FastTrak TX2 to work? I have the same card, and am experiencing very similar problems.

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